Homeland Security Victim Training

                Have you wondered what to do if someone was to come into your place of work with a firearm and started shooting. Well, most likely your place of employment is a “gun-free zone” and there is little to no security on hand to protect you. Don’t worry; Homeland Security has released an instructional video on what to do if there is an active shooter. 

 

  

                According to the instructional video you many options, run away, hide under a desk, call 911 if it is safe and hope that you don’t get shot. “If you are caught out in the open and cannot conceal yourself or take cover, you might consider trying to overpower the shooter with whatever means are available,” the narrator says. You might ask yourself, “What could I possibly do to defend myself?” You can confront the active shooter with a pair of scissors. Yes scissors. 

Why scissors, a stapler, or a letter opener? Well because the government is attempting to outlaw firearms for law-abiding citizens. As stricter gun laws and background checks go into effect, instructional videos like these will become unnecessary. Soon all people living within the United States will be completely disarmed of deadly firearms.

However, until then, hide under your desks, grab your scissors, call 911, and wait for the professional law enforcement agents to arrive. Due to budget cuts however, these agents might take 30 minutes or more to get to your rescue. So, make sure to grab a bottle of water, have some snacks on hand, and snag a magazine on your way to your hiding spot.

I am not a big fan of this plan. There has to be a better option than to run or hide and hope that we do not become a victim of an active shooter. I would rather not have to engage in violence, but I would rather stand and fight than run away. I would rather defend my life and the lives of my fellow co-workers than to hide in fear. I would rather live to spend another day with my family than be a victim. That’s  why I would rather carry a firearm myself to defend my life and the life of others. Not all of us need to be a policeman to protect and serve our fellow countrymen.

Freeze or I'll Stomp You!

I'm not sure what this person was being apprehended for, but it sure seems to me that he did not need three policemen to kick him while he was down.

Is the standard operation in bringing down a criminal today to taze them, beat them, then cuff them? How often does something like this happen?

This also does not give me confidence in relinquishing my Second Amendment right leaving firearms only in the hands of the military and law enforcement. Seeing this does not make me feel safer in a world where only policemen have firearms.

 "Whereas civil-rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as military forces, which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms." 

-- Tench Coxe, in Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution. 

"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms ... The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard, against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be always possible." 

-- Hubert H. Humphrey, Senator, Vice President, 22 October 1959.

Which Patriot will you be?

“In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man and brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot.”

– Mark Twain

Which Patriot will you be?

Fourth Amendment & Writs of Assistance

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized,” the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights.

                Why would our Founding Fathers want to guarantee this right for the American people? To understand the reason why, we need to understand how this right was violated during our colonial period before the revolution.

                The British had fought a long and costly war against the French, what was known in the colonies as the “French and Indian War.” England needed to raise money to pay off the debt they incurred during the war and decided to tax her British subjects in the colonies. On March 22, 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act.

                What was the Stamp Act? It was a new tax that required American colonists to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. This tax was on such items as newspapers, legal documents, posters, ship’s papers, even playing cards.  

The Stamp Act represented the first direct tax on the American colonies. British subjects in the colonies were used to taxes and duties imposed on their trade to regulate their commerce, but not to raise money. Colonists like Patrick Henry objected to this tax on the ground that the colonists were not being represented in London. This objection led to the well-known battle cry, “No Taxation without Representation!”

                However, London wanted more than to raise money through a direct tax on its British subjects residing in the American colonies, they were also looking to curb their subject’s trade with the French and the Dutch (Danish West Indies). American colonists were trading with these foreigners because they could obtain many goods, like molasses and sugar, for a cheaper price than the British brands. These cheaper prices and expensive British duties led to smuggling in the colonies.

                Writs of assistance were issued to customs officers to ensure that paper goods were stamped according to the Stamp Act guidelines and those homes and businesses in the colonies were free from smuggled goods. These search warrants authorized the holder to search any house for smuggled goods without specifying either the house or the goods. It was easy for a custom officer to be issued a writ of assistance, since the royal governor would legally pocket a third of all the fines imposed on the smugglers that were unlucky enough to get caught.

                Attorney James Otis Jr. argued against the legality of these search warrants in a legal dispute in 1761. Otis contended that the “writ is against the fundamental principles of laws…[and] destructive to English liberty.” A young man by the name of John Adams was in that Massachusetts courtroom that day and wrote in his diary: “Every man appeared to me to go away, as I did, ready to take arms against writs of assistance.”

                What of today? Are we asked to pay for our nation’s wars? Are there taxes imposed on us to pay for such things? Are there duties and taxes imposed on us to regulate our trade today?  Yes, there are such taxes.

                Is there evidence of illegal searches being conducting in our homes, places of business, or even in our correspondence with each other? Do we have a reemergence of those unlawful writs of assistance in our day and age? Is the Fourth Amendment under attack today?

What of the searching of our internet communications? 

"A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever," John Adams in a Letter to Abigail Adams (July 7, 1775).

We cannot afford to let our liberties slip away from us. We cannot afford to forget the past. We cannot be made to believe that which took place over 200 years ago has nothing to do with us today. We must spread the message of liberty to our fellow Americans. We must defend those rights and liberties that so many bled and died for. Protect the Fourth Amendment America. Protect your rights.

Give me my welfare!

"The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, impost, and excised, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States...." (Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.)

"Perhaps 90 percent of what the federal government does is actually unconstitutional-and it's all due to an expansion of government power under the guise of the 'general welfare."
-Brion McClanahan, Ph.D., "The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers" (pg. 77).

This section of the Constitution does not give the federal government the right to expand the welfare state in America. The government was not established to provide for us our daily bread, nor was it created to squander our tax dollars. Government welfare programs create more problems than they solve.

What is government's role?

What is their responsibility to the poor?

 What say you?

How Big Is the U.S. Debt?

How big is the U.S. debt? 

I'm pretty sure you'll be surprised to see how big it really is.

 
I ask you, who you think is going to pay this off? Also, tell me what you think about continual government spending and borrowing.

"Keep spending, that'll fix the recession."

"Keep spending, that'll fix the recession." That philosophy makes no sense.

I'd say most Americans have little money to spend in their families. But if we were to follow the government model to end our individual recession, then we should spend all that have followed by using our credit cards, right? However, to follow the government model more fully, we should take money from all of our neighbors and spend it (keeping a good amount for our own income). Then borrow money from the town next to us, which we will promise to pay back. Finally, we would also need to print up some money in our garage to put back out into circulation (not backed by any gold or silver).

Wake up Americans. It doesn't work like that for us and it shouldn't work like that for the government. Our tax dollars are our hard earned money being wasted away. 

We need to cut spending. Spending cuts often accelerate economic growth by freeing up resources for the private sector.

Other countries have benefited by cutting government spending. It's time that we do the same. It's time that we demand it.

Some then may say that we still need to spend money for national defense. Spending money to protect ourselves is one thing, but spending money for offensive purposes is another. We can make some cuts here.

Some might even say that founding our war machine and going to war with the Axis powers is what helped us out of the Great Depression. That is a myth. They might even say the New Deal is what boosted the economy. Yet again, that would be a false assessment.  

It's time to stop the blatant wasteful spending of our tax dollars in the name of "economic prosperity."